The Namibia Education Coalition has called on the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture to introduce a policy that will guide the use of educational technology to shift from teaching in classrooms alone.

The National Coordinator of the Namibia Education Coalition for Civil Society Organizations, Martin Matsuib, made this call after the announcement of the National Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advance Subsidiary level results.

Some of the reasons the Namibia Education Coalition picked up as to why learners performed poorly are obstacles such as parents not being actively involved in their children's education and a lack of online extracurricular learning platforms.

"As a civil society, we believe that students should actually get out of the classrooms, and we are actually involved in a project trying to impose it on the Ministry to fight for a policy that will guide what we call digital transformation. In education, children do not get extra support after school, and most parents are not really involved in their children's education because research shows that children who perform well are those whose parents are involved."

He says the problem does not lie with the teachers alone.

He added that Namibia should not only focus on the belief that learning only takes place within the four corners of a classroom, but there should be extra online classes.

The Namibia Education Coalition, in collaboration with other stakeholders, is busy working on an online program to involve parents in helping improve their children's education.

So far, the programs are targeted to start in the Kavango, Kunene, Khomas, Omaheke, and Hardap regions, and a thousand parents have been identified to be trained through the program.

He also commended the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture for the timely release of the results compared to previous years.